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The Hub of Software Innovation.” SourceForge.net is the world’s largest open, collaborative platform enabling millions of technology innovators around the globe to develop and distribute cutting edge, emerging technologies amongst a massive universal community of casual consumers and leading industry professionals seeking and evaluating software solutions. With over 230,000 open source software projects, delivering over 3 million downloads every day, expert help, and a global reach penetrating every area on planet Earth, SourceForge.net has become the world’s largest reliable collection of open source software tools and applications on the net today.

The Grinder is a load testing framework that makes it easy to run a distributed test using many load injector machines. Test scripts are written in Jython, and can call out to arbitrary Java code, providing support for testing a large range of network protocols. The Grinder comes with a mature plug-in for testing HTTP services, HTTP scripts can be recorded easily from a browser session.

TestLink is a web based Test Management tool. The application provides Test specification, Test plans and execution, Reporting, Requirements specification and collaborate with well-known bug trackers. The purpose of TestLink is to answer questions such as: - For which requirements do we still need to write or update test cases? - Which tests do you want me to run for this version? - How much progress have we made on testing this release? - Which test cases are currently failing, and what are the errors? - On which version was this group of test cases last run, and is it time we ran them again? - And ultimately: is this version of the product fit for release?

GUITAR software, a model-based system for automated GUI testing. This framework supports a wide variety of model-based GUI testing techniques. The innovation lies in the architecture of GUITAR, which uses plug-ins to support flexibility and extensibility. Software developers and quality assurance engineers may use this architecture to create new toolchains, new workflows based on the toolchains, and plug in a variety of measurement tools to conduct GUI testing.

WatiN (pronounced as What-in), WatiN has grown into an easy to use, feature rich and stable framework. WatiN stands for Web Application Testing In .NET, and it's a framework that enables web application testing through Internet Explorer.
The way that WatiN works is very "easy", knowing that there's a lot of work behind a framework like this. WatiN lets you open Internet Explorer instances, and through interop, interact with the elements in a form.
With WatiN, you can get and set values from the elements in a form, and you can fire events of any of the elements in the document too. WatiN is developed in C# and aims to bring you an easy way to automate your tests with Internet Explorer and FireFox using .Net.

SUnit is the mother of all unit testing frameworks, and serves as one of the cornerstones of test-driven development methodologies such as eXtreme Programming. It is a premier testing tool for Smalltalk, and one of the flagship Camp Smalltalk projects. A public-domain code base, SUnit allows one to write the tests and check results in Smalltalk; while this approach has the disadvantage that testers need to be able to write simple Smalltalk programs, the resulting tests are very stable.

Ahven is a simple unit test library (or a framework) for Ada programming language. It is loosely modelled after JUnit and some ideas are taken from AUnit. Ahven is free software distributed under permissive ISC license and should work with any Ada 95, 2005, or 2012 compiler.
New releases do not appear at SourceForge anymore, find new releases at http://ahven.stronglytyped.org/

Mstone is a mail performance measurement system.
It can simultaneously test SMTP, POP, IMAP, and some HTML based systems.
It measures transaction latency in multiple stages, and graphs the combined results from multiple clients. In order to simulate high load levels and to randomize accesses, Mstone can run on multiple test client machines and the results are automatically combined when the test is complete.

HTTP Test Tool is a script based tool for testing and benchmarking web applications, web servers, proxy servers and web browsers. httest can emulate clients and servers even in the same test script. Advanced HTTP protocol handling, including ne-grained timeout handling, request and response validation, Simulating clients and servers, including startup and shutdown of server daemons. This allows creating mock-ups of back-end systems in more complex test situations
Execution of external command line tools, using their output as a request or response data, or for validation purposes.

Endeavour Agile ALM is an Open Source solution to manage the creation of large-scale enterprise systems in an iterative and incremental agile software development process. Endeavour Agile ALM features support for Use Cases, Iterations, Project Plan, Change Requests, Defect Tracking, Test Cases, Test Plans, Tasks, Document management, Reports and many other process artifacts. It has been designed with the priority in mind to be easy to use, intuitive and above all realistic by avoiding unnecessary features that might increase complexity.

The Software Testing Automation Framework (STAF) is an open source, multi-platform, multi-language framework designed around the idea of reusable components, called services (such as process invocation, resource management, logging, and monitoring). STAF removes the tedium of building an automation infrastructure, thus enabling you to focus on building your automation solution. The STAF framework provides the foundation upon which to build higher level solutions, and provides a pluggable approach supported across a large variety of platforms and languages.

RTH (Requirements and Testing Hub) is an open-source web-based tool designed to manage requirements, tests, test results, and defects throughout the application life cycle. The tool provides a structured approach to software testing and increases the visibility of the testing process by creating a common repository for all test assets including requirements, test cases, test plans, and test results.

This framework supports a wide variety of model-based GUI testing techniques. The innovation lies in the architecture of GUITAR, which uses plug-ins to support flexibility and extensibility. Software developers and quality assurance engineers may use this architecture to create new toolchains, new workflows based on the toolchains, and plug in a variety of measurement tools to conduct GUI testing.

More detail is presented in this publication:

GUITAR: An Innovative Tool for Automated Testing of GUI-driven Software.

EclEmma is a free Java code coverage tool for Eclipse, available under the Eclipse Public License.
It brings code coverage analysis directly into the Eclipse workbench:
Fast develop/test cycle: Launches from within the workbench like JUnit test runs can directly be analyzed for code coverage.
Rich coverage analysis: Coverage results are immediately summarized and highlight;ed in the Java source code editors.
Non-invasive: EclEmma does not require modifying your projects or performing any other setup. Since version 2.0 EclEmma is based on the JaCoCo code coverage library. The Eclipse integration has its focus on supporting the individual developer in an highly interactive way.

SIPp is a free Open Source test tool / traffic generator for the SIP protocol. It includes a few basic SipStone user agent scenarios (UAC and UAS) and establishes and releases multiple calls with the INVITE and BYE methods. It can also reads custom XML scenario files describing from very simple to complex call flows.

XMLUnit is an open source project licensed under the BSD license. It provides a small library of interrelated classes that simplify each of the different ways to test XML pieces that have been outlined in the previous section. Special APIs are provided to simplify writing unit tests with J/NUnit, but the library itself is fully usable without any testing framework at all. There is a Java and a .NET version of XMLUnit. XMLUnit’s APIs will accept “pieces of XML” as input using several different forms. In most cases they can be provided as InputStreams, Readers, Strings, InputSources or readily parsed DOM Document instances. XMLUnit also provides a Transform class that can be used to apply an XSLT transformation to an existing input.

Development teams want to develop and release products rapidly. However, it is not easy to run all the test case manually in every build to analyze the defect status and assure the code quality. Especially for web-based product, compatibility test will make test efforts in multiples.

Agile Test is a web-based test case management system with easy-to-use interface. It is designed to fit the team management needs regarding user stories, feature requirements and test cases in scrum framework.

Imprimatur is a tool for performing automated functional testing on web applications. The tests are described in a simple test script. Along with the standard HTTP methods, Imprimatur handles authentication, file uploads and HTTPS. The responses are validated using regular expressions.

Abbot helps to test your Java UI. It comprises Abbot, which lets you programmatically drive UI components, and Costello (built on Abbot) which allows you to easily launch, explore and control an application. The framework may be used with both scripts and compiled code. Testing with Abbot consists of getting references to GUI components and either performing user actions on those components or making some assertions about their state. To facilitate this process, the framework provides ComponentReferences to get a handle on a GUI component (even when it may not yet exist), and extended Robot-like objects, which know how to perform user-level actions on various GUI components.

OpenSTA is a distributed software testing architecture designed around CORBA. It supplies a versatile Test development software that enables to create and run Tests tailor-made for the specific environment. The current toolset has the capability of performing scripted Web (HTTP and HTTPS) heavy load tests and also include Collectors which are used to record additional performance data from Win32 platforms. OpenSTA supports the creation of HTTP/S load Tests that include Scripts which supply the load element.

RCUNIT is a small framework for testing C programs and a black box testing tool. It uses non-local jumps to emulate exceptions and handles program terminating signals (e.g. SIGILL) during test runs. RCUNIT allows creation of test fixtures, either per test or per test group. RCUNIT also provides a runtime memory leak check facility and an extensible exception handling mechanism. Requiring only an ANSI compliant C compiler, it is a highly portable unit testing tool.

Watij stands for Web Application Testing in Java. Watij is a Java API created to allow for the automation of web applications. Inspired by the simplicity of Watir and enhanced by the power of Java, Watij automates functional testing of web applications through real web browsers. WebSpec is Watij’s new cross browser and cross platform api for testing web applications. It works with IE, Mozilla, and Safari on their respective platforms for Windows, Linux, and Mac. You can write your scripts using Java or Ruby (via JRuby). Watij’s WebSpec API provides a JRuby extension so you get the power of Ruby and Java combined.

OpenWebLoad is a tool for load testing web applications. It aims to be easy to use and providing near real-time performance measurements of the application under test. This is particulary useful when you are doing optimization as you can see the impact of your changes almost immediately.

Unity is a unit test framework written entirely in the C language. It is lightweight and possesses special features for embedded systems. Unity has scaled well from small to large embedded projects but can be used for any C project. At only one source file and a couple of header files, it doesn’t get much smaller.

JCR (or jcodereview) is a web-based tool for performing and managing code reviews. It can be used for code in any language, but provides some extra features for Java. It can be used for reviews of any type of source code, although it has some special smarts for reviewing Java projects. It has special features to make large-scale reviews not only practical but easy and fast. JCR is intended to assist: Reviewers, Project owners, Process bigots, Architects and developers. JCR is generally targeted at larger-scale and more formal code reviews than other review tools (such as Crucible, Review Board, Rietveld and Codestriker). JCR is used to review more than half of the code.

FindBugs is a defect detection tool for Java that uses static analysis to look for more than 200 bug patterns, such as null pointer dereferences, infinite recursive loops, bad uses of the Java libraries and deadlocks. FindBugs can identify hundreds of serious defects in large applications (typically about 1 defect per 1000-2000 lines of non-commenting source statements). FindBugs is open source, and has been downloaded more than 230,000 times, and is used by many major companies and financial institutions.

Findbugs can be used from the command line or within ant, eclipse, maven, netbeans and emacs.

cfix is an xUnit testing framework for C/C++, specialized for unmanaged Windows development (32/64 bit). cfix supports development of both user and kernel mode unit tests. cifx unit tests are compiled and linked into a DLL. The testrunner application provided by cfix allows selectively running tests of one or more of such test-DLLs. Execution and behaviour in case of failing testcases can be highly customized. Moreover, cfix has been designed to work well in conjunction with the Windows Debuggers (Visual Studio, WinDBG). As of cfix 1.3, the framework is source-compatible to WinUnit, i.e. a WinUnit test suite can be recompiled into a full-fledged cfix test suite.

CubicTest is an open source Eclipse plugin that tries to make testing web applications easier to design, understand and run for nontechnical as well as technical users. CubicTest uses a graphical user interface to let users model tests instead of writing test scripts. The tool focuses on enabling test driven development of web applications, but also supports testing of existing web applications. The goal is to make it possible to replace a detailed requirements specification and manual test scripts with tests designed in CubicTest.

xTests is a simple, easy-to-use, efficient unit- and component-test library, for multiple languages. Combining high discoverability and low coupling, xTests is a lightweight solution designed for use in verifying other libraries.

The current version covers C and C++ testing. It is implemented in C++ and expresses a C/C++-API. Its primary design features are:

Combination of FitNesse and Selenium, providing a domain specific langauge that allows non developers to write selenium tests in plain english that are executed through the Fitnesse framework. Fitnium creates an easy bridge between Fitnesse and executing Selenium-style intructions, by means of extension of Fitnesse’s scripting language. Fitnium takes it a step further by encouraging scenarios to be written in style that is both understandable to all but also provides the developer with good instruction on what code to produce (domain-specific language (DSL)). Although programming languages various is style and format, fundamental elements remain similar and can be experessed in a common style.

EMMA is a fast Java code coverage tool based on bytecode instrumentation. It is an open-source toolkit for measuring and reporting Java code coverage. EMMA distinguishes itself from other tools by going after a unique feature combination: support for large-scale enterprise software development while keeping individual developer's work fast and iterative.

Avignon is an acceptance test system that allows you to write executable tests in a language that you define. Avignon tests are written in XML and executed by a JUnit test runner using small pieces of Java code associated to each XML tag. It comes with a number of tags already coded that allow fairly effective testing of web applications and limited testing of Java Swing and AWT based applications, but you can derive the most benefit from it by using its extensibility to create your own testing language that best expresses your tests. For programming teams that use the eXtreme Programming (XP) methodology, Avignon lets customers express acceptance tests in a non-ambiguous manner before development starts.

The Linux Test Project is a group aimed at testing and improving Linux. The goal of the LTP is to deliver a suite of automated testing tools for Linux as well as publishing the results of tests we run. LTP invites community to contribute in new horizons. The LTP testsuite contains a collection of tools for testing the Linux kernel and related features.

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Ns is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research. Ns provides substantial support for simulation of TCP, routing, and multicast protocols over wired and wireless (local and satellite) networks.

JWebUnit is a Java framework that facilitates creation of acceptance tests for web applications. It evolved from a project where we were using HttpUnit and JUnit to create acceptance tests. As the tests were being written, they were continuously refactored to remove duplication and other bad smells in the test code. JWebUnit is the result of these refactorings. It wraps existing testing frameworks such as HtmlUnit and Selenium with a unified, simple testing interface to allow you to quickly test the correctness of your web applications.

DbUnit is a JUnit extension (also usable with Ant) targeted at database-driven projects that, among other things, puts the database into a known state between test runs. DbUnit has the ability to export and import the database data to and from XML datasets. Since version 2.0, DbUnit can also work with very large datasets when used in streaming mode. DbUnit can also help to verify that the database data match an expected set of values. DbUnit includes a comprehensive test suite.

TextTest is an application-independent tool for text-based functional testing. This means running a batch-mode binary in lots of different ways, and using the text output produced as a means of controlling the behavior of that application.
We are warm adherents of Agile Development practices, and practitioners of Extreme Programming. We believe that the Agile movement has improved the software quality situation a great deal, by moving testing to the center of the development process and making developers directly responsible for verifying the quality of their code.

Anteater is a testing framework designed around Ant, from the Apache Jakarta Project. It provides an easy way to write tests for checking the functionality of a Web application or of an XML Web service. It can test either HTTP requests or replies in various sophisticated ways. The ability to wait for incoming HTTP messages is unique to Anteater, which makes it especially useful when building tests for applications that use high level SOAP-based communication and asynchronous SOAP messages. Anteater provides XML and text logging support and the ability to render the logs into HTML reports.

Jameleon is a data-driven automated testing tool that is easily extensible via plug-ins. Features of applications are automated in Java and tied together independently in XML, creating self-documenting automated test cases. The learning curve is small and maintenance is minimal because Jameleon is broken up into different layers that can be learned by people of different skill sets. Jameleon breaks applications up into features and allows testing at any level, simply by passing in different data for the same test. And because Jameleon is based on Java and XML, there is no need to learn a proprietary technology.

Micro is a lightweight, xUnit style, Open Source AutoIt unit testing framework written in AutoIt, for AutoIt. Micro using a simple and natural unit testing syntax. The goal of Micro is to be easy to use and simple to integrate with continuous integration services. Micro provides a simple assert based system for testing the fixtures of your code.

PictMaster - Excel based Pairwise testing tool. This is an Excel based, free software called PictMaster, which automatically creates test cases for the combinatorial testing of the software on Excel.
PICT, which is free software from Microsoft that uses the pairwise method, is used for the engine part of test case creation. PICT is software that runs from the command prompt, but PictMaster is something that allows the easy use of PICT by using the GUI in Excel.

HtmlUnit is a "GUI-Less browser for Java programs". It models HTML documents and provides an API that allows to invoke pages, fill out forms, click links, etc. just like in the "normal" browser. It has fairly good JavaScript support, and is able to work even with quite complex AJAX libraries, simulating either Firefox or Internet Explorer depending on the configuration you want to use. It is typically used for testing purposes or to retrieve information from web sites.

HttpUnit emulates the relevant portions of browser behavior, including form submission, JavaScript, basic http authentication, cookies and automatic page redirection, and allows Java test code to examine returned pages either as text, an XML DOM, or containers of forms, tables, and links. When combined with a framework such as JUnit, it is fairly easy to write tests that very quickly verify the functioning of a web site.